Forum?

[Ned Deily]

In article <2EEAE4B8-F2C2-4646-8B66-1F752FC785E0 at geeklair.net>,
 "Daniel J. Luke" <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Andrew Todd wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Dominik Reichardt <domiman at gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> >> Anyway, I'd prefer a forum, it probably could be done as the libSDL people
> >> have done it, that the forum and ML go to the same address (ML posts go to
> >> the forum, forum posts go to the ML).
> > 
> > Honestly, I'd just like to see the ML configured so that the default
> > reply-to address is the list email rather than the author's email.
> and I want a pony ;-)
> 
> reply-to munging comes up every once a a while, but there are various good 
> reasons for not doing it (google "reply to considered harmful" if you're 
> curious).
> 
> Since MacPorts is an all volunteer project, there's nothing stopping anyone 
> from creating a web forum and having discussions there.
> 
> It's just a matter of having enough interested people so that there's a group 
> willing to answer questions/give advice/whatever.
> 
> I personally probably won't participate in a web forum, just like I don't 
> participate in the IRC channel - but that doesn't mean that places outside of 
> the mailing list(s) aren't useful places to go...

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